There were no separate judicial or executive branches: only a Congress consisting of a single house. There is an obvious lack of criteria for answering questions such as these, which points up the impropriety of the Court's wholehearted but heavy-footed entrance into the political arena. On the apportionment of the state legislatures at the time of the Constitutional Convention, see Luce, Legislative Principles (1930), 331-364; Hacker, Congressional Districting (1963), 5. I, 3, and it was specially provided in Article V that no State should ever be deprived of its equal representation in the Senate. . . at 532 (Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts). . The result was the Constitutional Convention of 1787, called for "the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. Unfortunately I can join neither the opinion of the Court nor the dissent of my Brother HARLAN. [n20] A number of delegates supported this plan. In The Federalist, No. at 202 (Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut); 4 id. As will be shown, these constitutional provisions and their "historical context," ante, p. 7, establish: 1. that congressional Representatives are to be apportioned among the several States largely, but not entirely, according to population; 2. that the States have plenary power to select their allotted Representatives in accordance with any method of popular election they please, subject only to the supervisory power of Congress; and, 3. that the supervisory power of Congress is exclusive. . Elected politicians are the real locus of executive power. . [n44] Congress' power, said John Steele at the North Carolina convention, was not to be used to allow Congress to create rotten boroughs; in answer to another delegate's suggestion that Congress might use its power to favor people living near the seacoast, Steele said that Congress "most probably" would "lay the state off into districts," and, if it made laws "inconsistent with the Constitution, independent judges will not uphold them, nor will the people obey them." . Each time redistricting plans were drawn up in accordance with the federal census and put to a vote, they failed to get enough votes to pass. II, 1. With this single qualification, I join the dissent because I think MR. JUSTICE HARLAN has unanswerably demonstrated that Art. https://www.thoughtco.com/baker-v-carr-4774789 (accessed March 1, 2023). A district court panel declined to hear the case, finding that it could not rule on "political" matters like redistricting and apportionment. Such failure violates both judicial restraint and separation of powers concerns under the Constitution. We noted probable jurisdiction. . Suppose that you actually observe 3 or more of the sample of 10 bridges with inspection ratings of 4 or below in 2020. . The United States Supreme Court ruled that federal courts could hear and rule on cases in which plaintiffs allege that re-apportionment plans violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. A majority of the Court in Colegrove v. Green felt, upon the authority of Smiley, that the complaint presented a justiciable controversy not reserved exclusively to Congress. . Spitzer, Elianna. [n26] Mr. Smith proposed to add to the resolution, . [n25] At last those who supported representation of the people in both houses and those who supported it in neither were brought together, some expressing the fear that, if they did not reconcile their differences, "some foreign sword will probably do the work for us." A more obvious departure was the provision that each State shall have a Representative regardless of its population. . 8. [n23], The dispute came near ending the Convention without a Constitution. The main reason for this is that Australians modeled their 1901 constitution on the American example. But a court cannot erase only the districts which do not conform to the standard announced today, since invalidation of those districts would require that the lines of all the districts within the State be redrawn. The debates in the ratifying conventions, as clearly as Madison's statement at the Philadelphia Convention, supra, pp. . Farsighted men felt that a closer union was necessary if the States were to be saved from foreign and domestic dangers. . [p3], Claiming that these population disparities deprived them and voters similarly situated of a right under the Federal Constitution to have their votes for Congressmen given the same weight as the votes of other Georgians, the appellants brought this action under 42 U.S.C. ; H.R. . Smiley, Koenig, and Carroll settled the issue in favor of justiciability of questions of congressional redistricting. Again, in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 232 (1962), the opinion of the Court recognized that Smiley "settled the issue in favor of justiciability of questions of congressional redistricting." Plaintiffs sought an injunction to prevent any further elections until the legislature had passed new redistricting laws to 11. The districts are those used in the election of the current 88th Congress. . Id. New Jersey apparently allowed women, as "inhabitants," to vote until 1807. 3. The two countries are excellent test cases for comparing federal constitutions precisely because they are so similar and yet different. It established the right of federal courts to review redistricting issues, . See ante, p. 17, and infra, pp. 2 id. See Paschal, "The House of Representatives: Grand Depository of the Democratic Principle'?" . Far from supporting the Court, the apportionment of Representatives among the States shows how blindly the Court has marched to its decision. Decision was 6 to 2. 162; Act of Nov. 15, 1941, 55 Stat. In Baker v. Carr, the court determined that the legislative apportionment was a legitimate concern, whereas in Wesberry v. Sanders, the court found that Georgia's apportionment plan grossly discriminated against Fifth Congressional District voters because they were 2 to 3 times as numerous and as a result underrepresented in terms of The complaint alleged that appellants were deprived of the full benefit of their right to vote, in violation of (1) Art. Our Constitution leaves no room for classification of people in a way that unnecessarily abridges [p18] this right. . that each state shall be divided into as many districts as the representatives it is entitled to, and that each representative shall be chosen by a majority of votes. 129, 153). Materials supplementary to the debates are as unequivocal. [n2], Notwithstanding these findings, a majority of the court dismissed the complaint, citing as their guide Mr. Justice Frankfurter's minority opinion in Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549, an opinion stating that challenges to apportionment [p4] of congressional districts raised only "political" questions, which were not justiciable. This decision requires each state to draw its U.S. Congressional districts so that they are approximately equal in population. 491,461277,861213,600, NorthDakota(2). Indeed, most of them interpreted democracy as mob rule, and assumed that equality of representation would permit the spokesmen for the common man to outvote the beleaguered deputies of the uncommon man. It will, I presume, be as readily conceded that there were only three ways in which this power could have been reasonably modified and disposed, that it must either have been lodged wholly in the National Legislature, or wholly in the State Legislatures, or primarily in the latter and ultimately in the former. at 663. Not only can this right to vote not be denied outright, it cannot, consistently with Article I, be destroyed by alteration of ballots, see United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, or diluted by stuffing of the ballot box, see United States v. Saylor, 322 U.S. 385. . This decision, coupled with the one person, one vote opinions decided around the same time, had a massive impact on the makeup of the House of Representatives and on electoral politics in general. In a 1946 case, Colegrove v. Green, the Supreme Court had ruled that apportionment should be left to the states to decide, the attorneys argued. Despite a swell in population, certain urban areas were still receiving the same amount of representatives as rural areas with far less voters. Suppose the citizens of a tri-city area need public transit to move across city lines. How can it be, then, that this very same sentence prevents Georgia from apportioning its Representatives as it chooses? ," and representatives "of different districts ought clearly to hold the same proportion to each other as their respective constituents hold to each other." Justice Brennan focused the decision on whether redistricting could be a "justiciable" question, meaning whether federal courts could hear a case regarding apportionment of state representatives. [p49]. Soon after the Convention assembled, Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a plan not merely to amend the Articles of Confederation, but to create an entirely new National Government with a National Executive, National Judiciary, and a National Legislature of two Houses, one house to be elected by "the people," the second house to be elected by the first. I, 2. Many of the most important powers conferred on the federal legislature are essentially the same, or very similar, to those in the United States: taxation; trade and commerce with other countries and among the states; borrowing money; naturalization; bankruptcy; coinage; weights and measures; postal services; copyrights and patents; and defense. [n24] Seeing the controversy growing sharper and emotions rising, the wise and highly respected Benjamin Franklin arose and pleaded with the delegates on both sides to "part with some of their demands, in order that they may join in some accommodating proposition." WebCharles W. Baker and other Tennessee citizens argued that a 1901 law designed to apportion the seats for the state's General Assembly was virtually ignored. Thus, in the number of The Federalist which does discuss the regulation of elections, the view is unequivocally stated that the state legislatures have plenary power over the conduct of congressional elections subject only to such regulations as Congress itself might provide. 522,813265,164257,649, Pennsylvania(27). WebWesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that districts in the United States House of Representatives must be Bridge inspection ratings. Elections are equal when a given number of citizens in one part of the state choose as many representatives as are chosen by the same number of citizens in any other part of the state. . Section 4. . Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. [n14], If the power is not immediately derived from the people in proportion to their numbers, we may make a paper confederacy, but that will be all. By contrast, what might be the main advantage of leaving this legislation at the state level? Instead of proceeding on the merits, the court dismissed the case for lack of equity. 54, Madison said: It is a fundamental principle of the proposed Constitution that, as the aggregate number of representatives allotted to the several States is to be determined by a federal rule founded on the aggregate number of inhabitants, so the right of choosing this allotted number in each State is to be exercised by such part of the inhabitants as the State itself may designate. Typical of recent proposed legislation is H.R. . Spitzer, Elianna. Such discriminatory legislation seems to me exactly the kind that the equal protection clause was intended to prohibit. [n45][p17]. It established the right of federal courts to review redistricting issues, when just a few years earlier such matter werecategorized as political questions outside the jurisdiction of the courts. The Court relies in part on Baker v. Carr, supra, to immunize its present decision from the force of Colegrove. [I]t was thought that the regulation of time, place, and manner, of electing the representatives, should be uniform throughout the continent. United States v. Mosley, 238 U.S. 383; Ex Parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651. I love them.. an aspect of government from which the judiciary, in view of what is involved, has been excluded by the clear intention of the Constitution. [n46] There was no reapportionment following the 1920 census. [n12] When the Convention [p10] met in May, this modest purpose was soon abandoned for the greater challenge of creating a new and closer form of government than was possible under the Confederation. In the ratifying conventions, there was no suggestion that the provisions of Art. The constitutional scheme vests in the States plenary power to regulate the conduct of elections for Representatives, and, in order to protect the Federal Government, provides for congressional supervision of the States' exercise of their power. 57 (Cooke ed.1961), at 385. Ibid. 30-41, the Court's opinion supports its holding only with the bland assertion that "the principle of a House of Representatives elected by the People'" would be "cast aside" if "a vote is worth more in one district than in another," ante, p. 8, i.e., if congressional districts within a State, each electing a single Representative, are not equal in population . . Women were not allowed to vote. . . The failure gave significant power to voters in rural areas, and took away power from voters in suburban and urban parts of the state. 12. . Which of the following systems of government concentrates the most power at the national level? We agree with the District Court that the 1931 Georgia apportionment grossly discriminates against voters in the Fifth Congressional District. 711,045243,570467,475, Massachusetts(12). The fact that the delegates were able to agree on a Senate composed entirely without regard to population and on the departures from a population-based House, mentioned in note 8, supra, indicates that they recognized the possibility that alternative principles, combined with political reality, might dictate conclusions inconsistent with an abstract principle of absolute numerical equality. Yet, even here, the U.S. model was influential. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. . at 193, 342-343 (Roger Sherman); id. Since there is only one Congressman for each district, this inequality of population means that the Fifth District's Congressman has to represent from two to three times as many people as do Congressmen from some of the other Georgia districts. In that case, the Court had declared re-apportionment a "political thicket." 1081 (remarks of Mr. Moser). "[N]umbers," he said, not only are a suitable way to represent wealth, but, in any event, "are the only proper scale of representation." The Constitution does not call for equal sized districts, and therefore there is no constitutional right at stake. At the time of the Revolution. The Court gives scant attention, and that not on the merits, to Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549, which is directly in point; the Court there affirmed dismissal of a complaint alleging that. The fallacy of the Court's reasoning in this regard is illustrated by its slide, obscured by intervening discussion (see ante pp. In all of the discussion surrounding the basis of representation of the House and all of the discussion whether Representatives should be elected by the legislatures or the people of the States, there is nothing which suggests [p32] even remotely that the delegates had in mind the problem of districting within a State. While "free Persons" and those "bound to Service for a Term of Years" were counted in determining representation, Indians not taxed were not counted, and "three fifths of all other Persons" (slaves) were included in computing the States' populations. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/baker-v-carr-4774789. . . . 1496. The populations of the districts are available in the biographical section of the Congressional Directory, 88th Cong., 2d Sess. [n4] Thus, today's decision impugns the validity of the election of 398 Representatives from 37 States, leaving a "constitutional" House of 37 members now sitting. 374 U.S. 802. Ibid. . Pro. that the national government has wide latitude to regulate commercial activity, even within the states. As the Court repeatedly emphasizes, delegates to the Philadelphia Convention frequently expressed their view that representation should be based on population. If youre looking for levity, look no further. There was not the slightest intimation in that case that Congress' power to prescribe regulations for elections was subject to judicial scrutiny, ante, p. 18, such that this Court could itself prescribe regulations for congressional elections in disregard, and even in contradiction, of congressional purpose. similarities between baker v carr and wesberry v sanders Like its American counterpart, Australias constitution is initially divided into distinct chapters dealing with Time & \text{Nonconformities per Unit} & Time & \text{Nonconformities per Unit} \\ Reflecting this, the preamble to the Constitution recites that the people of each state agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth. The federation was expressed to be indissoluble lest Americas experience with secession ever be contemplated in Australia. Which of the following clauses in the Constitution gives Congress the authority to make whatever laws are "necessary and proper" in order to execute its enumerated powers? Moreover, Australia has no national bill of rights, only a few scattered guarantees. 506,854378,499128,355, Montana(2). ; H.R. While those who wanted both houses to represent the people had yielded on the Senate, they had not yielded on the House of Representatives. Voters in the Fifth district sued the Governor and Secretary of State of Georgia, seeking to invalidate Georgias apportionment structure because their votes were given less weight compared to voters in other districts. I, 4, as placing "into the hands of the state legislatures" the power to regulate elections, but retaining for Congress "self-preserving power" to make regulations lest "the general government . II Elliot's Debates on the Federal Constitution (2d ed. (Emphasis added.) at 467 (Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts); id. Which of the following is the best example of a national-level policy serving as a response to a collective-action dilemma among states? [n34]) Steele was concerned with the danger of congressional usurpation, under the authority of 4, of power belonging to the States. [p45]. [n37] In No. 45. A) The only difference in the two cases is that The Baker case was related to state legislative districts. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, it exercises judicial review. Section 5 of Article I, which provides that "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members," also points away from the Court's conclusion. . 12(b)(6). ." King stated that the power of Congress under 4 was necessary to "control in this case"; otherwise, he said, The representatives . . But he had in mind only that other clear provision of the Constitution that representation would be apportioned among the States according to population. Some delegations threatened to withdraw from the Convention if they did not get their way. . The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. 1 id. 19.See the materials cited in notes 41-42, 44-45 of the Court's opinion, ante, p. 16. Should the people of any state by any means be deprived of the right of suffrage, it was judged proper that it should be remedied by the general government. [n22]. . 3 & 6 & 8 & 5 \\ Attorneys on behalf of the state argued that the Supreme Court lacked grounds and jurisdiction to even hear the case. . ; H.R. WebCarr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964) established that all electoral districts of state legislatures and the United States House of Representatives must be equal in size by (Cooke ed.1961) 369. The state claimed redistricting was a political question and non-justiciable. 248 (1962). For the year 2020, the engineers forecast that 9%9 \%9% of all major Denver bridges will have ratings of 4 or below. What is done today saps the political process. This article was published more than5 years ago. at 50-51 (Rufus King, Massachusetts); 3 id. [n41]. . Since no slave voted, the inclusion of three-fifths of their number in the basis of apportionment gave the favored States representation far in excess of their voting population. Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U.S. 651, was a habeas corpus proceeding, in which the Court sustained the validity of a conviction of a group of persons charged with violating federal statutes [n54] which made it a crime to conspire to deprive a citizen of his federal rights, and in particular the right to vote. 41.See, e.g., 2 The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (2d Elliot ed. 14-15, and hereafter makes plain. At that hearing, the court should apply the standards laid down in Baker v. Carr, supra. One of the three judges on the panel dissented from the result. We do not deem [Colegrove v. Green] . Which best describes Federalism as a political system? Next, Justice Brennan found that Baker and his fellow plaintiffs had standing to sue because, the voters were alleging "facts showing disadvantage to themselves as individuals.". The justification for this would be that pollution is a collective-action problem, so the federal government is in the best position to address it. That is the high standard of justice and common sense which the Founders set for us. The Federalist, No. The NBIS rating scale ranges from 0 (poorest rating) to 9 (highest rating). Act of Feb. 25, 1882, 3, 22 Stat. Act of June 25, 1842, 2, 5 Stat. Believing that the complaint fails to disclose a constitutional claim, I would affirm the judgment below dismissing the complaint. It was to be the grand depository of the democratic principle of the Govt. of the yearly value of forty shillings, and been rated and actually paid taxes to this State. . [n52] Bills which would have imposed on the States a requirement of equally or nearly equally populated districts were regularly introduced in the House. The 37 "constitutional" Representatives are those coming from the eight States which elected their Representatives at large (plus one each elected at large in Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas) and those coming from States in which the difference between the populations of the largest and smallest districts was less than 100,000. . . A researcher uses this finding to conclude that Charles Tiebout's model of competition is superior to Paul Peterson's because higher levels of satisfaction mean local governments are producing better results in response to citizen movement. [n30] The Constitution embodied Edmund Randolph's proposal for a periodic census to ensure "fair representation of the people," [n31] an idea endorsed by Mason as assuring that "numbers of inhabitants" [p14] should always be the measure of representation in the House of Representatives. 814, 85th Cong., 1st Sess. Similar bills introduced in the current Congress are H.R. It was found necessary to leave the regulation of these, in the first place, to the state governments, as being best acquainted with the situation of the people, subject to the control of the general government, in order to enable it to produce uniformity and prevent its own dissolution. b. Three levels of federal courts Supreme, Circuit (Appellate), Federal district Stare decisis Let the decision stand. . The status of each state and how the laws applied within were a significant difference in the facts of Baker v. Carr (1962) and Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), which had an impact on the application of the Supreme Court's judgement. 627,019223,387403,632, Texas(23). [it] to mean" that the Constitutional Convention had adopted a principle of "one person, one vote" in contravention of the qualifications for electors which the States imposed. Baker petitioned to the Supreme Court of the United States. The following data were collected on the number of nonconformities per unit for 10 time periods: TimeNonconformitiesperUnitTimeNonconformitiesperUnit176523733685439254100\begin{array}{cc|cc} The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. WebWesberry v. Sanders (1964) Case Summary. 71 (1961). On the other hand, I agree with the majority that congressional districting is subject to judicial scrutiny. This dismissal can no more be justified on the ground of "want of equity" than on the ground of "nonjusticiability." 70 Cong.Rec. They brought this class action under 42 U.S.C. The Court's holding that the Constitution requires States to select Representatives either by elections at large or by elections in districts composed "as nearly as is practicable" of equal population places in jeopardy the seats of almost all the members of the present House of Representatives. . WebWesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964) was a U.S. Supreme Court case involving U.S. Congressional districts in the state of Georgia. [n10] This rule is followed automatically, of course, when Representatives are chosen as a group on a statewide basis, as was a widespread practice in the first 50 years of our Nation's history. The Federalist, No. I, 2 that Representatives be chosen "by the People of the several States" [n9] means that, as [p8] nearly as is practicable, one man's vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another's. 52.See, e.g., 86 Cong.Rec. 21.E.g., 1 id. But, as one might expect when the Constitution itself is free from ambiguity, the surrounding history makes what is already clear even clearer. 39. I had not expected to witness the day when the Supreme Court of the United States would render a decision which casts grave doubt on the constitutionality of the composition of the House of Representatives. If the Court were correct, Madison's remarks would have been pointless. In the Pennsylvania convention, James Wilson described Art. . This is not a case in which the Court vindicates the kind of individual rights that are assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, whose "vague contours," Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165, 170, of course, leave much room for constitutional developments necessitated by changing conditions in a dynamic society. e. The president agreed to hold more press conferences. the Constitution has conferred upon Congress exclusive authority to secure fair representation by the States in the popular House. What was the significance of Baker v Carr 1961? 33.Id. Indeed, the Court recognized that the Constitution "adopts the qualification" furnished by the States "as the qualification of its own electors for members of Congress." But since the slaves added to the representation only of their own State, Representatives [p28] from the slave States could have been thought to speak only for the slaves of their own States, indicating both that the Convention believed it possible for a Representative elected by one group to speak for another nonvoting group and that Representatives were in large degree still thought of as speaking for the whole population of a State. ; H.R. [n2] A difference of this magnitude in the size of districts, the average population of which in each State is less than 500,000, [n3] is presumably not equality among districts "as nearly as is practicable," although the Court does not reveal its definition of that phrase. [n47]. . 13-14), from the intention of the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention "that, in allocating Congressmen, the number assigned to each State should be determined solely by the number of the State's inhabitants," ante, p. 13, to a "principle solemnly embodied in the Great Compromise -- equal representation in the House for equal numbers of people," ante, p. 14. at 197-198 (Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania) id. Baker claimed the malapportionment of state legislatures is justiciable and the state of Tennessee argued such an issue is a political question not capable of being decided by the courts. The Court's talk about "debasement" and "dilution" of the vote is a model of circular reasoning, in which the premises of the argument feed on the conclusion. (Italics added.) . 841, 87th Cong., 1st Sess., which amends 2 U.S.C. establishment of a federal income tax after the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment. Baker v. Carr: Supreme Court Case, Arguments, Impact. 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